Doesn't mean that everything is ok.
Fred Reed on the progress of women in Mexico: Machismo. Certainly this reality is reflected in telenovelas - the romantic heroine who is strong, capable, runs her own business or what have you. Tonight I saw a commercial for Fernando Colunga's telenovela, Porque el amor manda, in which he plays a man who is down on his luck and becomes the secretary for some female executive (or business owner) - guess who becomes romantically involved? Is this realistic? He may be manly in some respects, but the male secretary who is subordinate to a woman at work - would she really fall in love with him? If she was over 40, divorced, and looking for a fling or even a LTR, it might be a different story.
Assuming that Mr. Reed's observations are accurate...
While there may not be such a strong feminist movement in Ibero-America or Mexico, with young women not adopting and spreading this idealogy in great numbers, but are merely seeking to make a living, is this such a positive development? Has it been accompanied by the emasculating of men? How many dispossessed men are there in the urban centers of Mexico? What sort of jobs are these women taking, and where are the men who could have filled them? Is there a growing underclass of men who haven't been able to find their place within polite society? How is what Mr. Reed observes different from what you find in industrializing, urbanizing "societies," like those in East Asia and elsewhere, where feminism does not have such a strong hold, and yet many of the consequences are the same? (Hypergamy, suppression of fertility, etc.)
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